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Pardoning the Clintons

I thought for a moment yesterday that I had been in the sun too long enjoying the Fourth of July festivities when I heard the former president's and Sen. Clinton’s comments surrounding President Bush’s commutation of Scooter Libby’s sentence. In case you missed the exchange, former President Clinton offered the following during a radio interview earlier in the week comparing the 140 pardons he issued on his last day in office to President Bush’s commutation of Libby:

"I think there are guidelines for what happens when somebody is convicted," Clinton told a radio interviewer Tuesday. "You've got to understand, this is consistent with their philosophy; they believe that they should be able to do what they want to do, and that the law is a minor obstacle."
Excuse me? “They believe they should be able to do what they want to do, and that the law is a minor obstacle?” Excellent point, President Clinton, but that sounds exactly like what you did in the waning hours of your administration as you dispensed pardons every which way on your way out the door. The law being a minor obstacle for President Bush? Let’s briefly recap a few people who deserved Clinton’s leniency in his final hours in office:

Here you’ll see a wide variety of people who received presidential leniency due to their close ties to the Clinton administration. Oh, wait, isn’t that what Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) said this week about President Bush?

"This commutation sends the clear signal that in this administration, cronyism and ideology trump competence and justice.” Those words were spoken by Sen. Clinton regarding President Bush’s use of the pardon/commutation power, not her husband’s. Rich.